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Global Grooves for Under a Buck

Updated July 1, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

Mali's Eric Clapton?

The Bob Dylan of Zimbabwe? The Britney Spears of Uzbekistan? You can't find much of them on iTunes, but now their catalogs are available for downloading, at 99 cents a song, on CalabashMusic.com, an Arlington, Mass., site that features world music.

Brad Powell, the chief executive, says he designed the site to give musicians around the world a chance to spread their sounds. Like iTunes, Calabash doesn't deal with major labels and its policy is to pay artists half the income from each download, which he...